Two former Croat prisoners of war who narrowly escaped a 1991 massacre of more than 200 fellow POWs at a pig farm in eastern Croatia testified yesterday at a landmark trial of 17 Serb paramilitaries charged in the slaughter.

ELEVEN more Serbs have been indicted in the 1991 killing of nearly 200 prisoners of war in eastern Croatia, the war crimes prosecutor’s office said in Belgrade.

A landmark war crimes trial opened in Belgrade today against six Serb suspects accused of killing 192 Croat prisoners of war at a pig farm during the brutal 1991 war in the Balkans.

THE TRIAL of eight Serbs accused of committing war crimes during vicious fighting for the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991 opens today in a special Serbian court.

OUR presidency of the EU next year gives us an opportunity to leave an even bigger mark on the union’s future if we choose to lead a debate on its place in the world.

A Serbian military commander indicted for war crimes has been handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

SERBIAN war crimes suspect Miroslav Radic, wanted for the killing of civilians and prisoners of war in Croatia in 1991, has handed himself over to authorities in Belgrade, the Beta news agency reported yesterday.

A former Yugoslav army officer has denied his troops executed at least 200 Croat hospital patients in 1991.

In a serious blow to Croatia’s new, pro-Western Government, the nationalist party of the late President Franjo Tudjman did much better than expected in yesterday’s local elections, leading in several counties and finishing second in Zagreb, the capital.